Call a Messenger (1939)
1h 5m
Running Time
November 3, 1939Release Date
Call a Messenger (1939)
1h 5m
Running Time
November 3, 1939Release Date
Plot.
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.
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Cast & Crew.
![Billy Halop](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/32753-billy-halop.webp)
Billy Halop
Jimmy Hogan
![Huntz Hall](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/16097-huntz-hall.webp)
Huntz Hall
'Pig'
![Robert Armstrong](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/27242-robert-armstrong.webp)
Robert Armstrong
Kirk Graham
![Mary Carlisle](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/79467-mary-carlisle.webp)
Mary Carlisle
Marge Hogan
![Anne Nagel](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/6039-anne-nagel.webp)
Anne Nagel
Frances O'Neill
![Victor Jory](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/17889-victor-jory.webp)
Victor Jory
Ed Hogan
![Arthur Lubin](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/40077-arthur-lubin.webp)
Arthur Lubin
Director
![Buster Crabbe](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/26106-buster-crabbe.webp)
Buster Crabbe
Chuck Walsh
Media.
![Call a Messenger](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/97554-call-a-messenger.webp)
Details.
Release DateNovember 3, 1939
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 5m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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Wiki.
Call a Messenger is a 1939 Universal Studios film that starred Billy Halop and Huntz Hall of the Dead End Kids and several of the Little Tough Guys. It was directed by Arthur Lubin.In terms of chronological order, this was released after the Dead End Kids film, The Angels Wash Their Faces.